Quotations from the letters of Frank Duff pertaining to Maria Legionis
It is unique amongst its type of magazine, inasmuch as it is all Legion. You will find therein no articles about Sunrise on the Apennines, or the Poetry of Francis Thompson. The contents are all honest-to-goodness Legion stuff, and very readable at that.
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The reading of the Legion Journal will help you to see the rather wonderful spirit which is evoked in people when they become Legionaries.
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I suggest that you read the Legion journal regularly.
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You remark that you find Maria Legionis a most valuable supplement to the Handbook. Actually it is imperative that Legionaries, if they really want to be good members, should read the Legion Journal. If one does not read it, there is a very great tendency to stagnate. Unless members have before them the works and new ideas of other places, they will find that they will tend to lag behind. Try to get over to your fellow-members this need for the reading of Maria Legionis.
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We have no advertisements, as you will have seen. If we were willing to incorporate these latter, we would be doing very well financially. However, this exclusion of advertising matter represents deliberate policy on our part, persevered in the teeth of expert advice to the effect that it would be impossible for the Journal to pay its way without advertisements. But even from the first issue the Journal demonstrated the contrary.
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I wonder if copies of Maria Legionis, the Legion Journal, have reached you yet. They have just come to hand here. It really represents a great achievement for the volunteer editorial staff. The whole production is eminently readable. We ought to make a terrific effort to get it into the hands of the Auxiliary members. It is really more important that they should be readers than the Active Members, who are already in fair touch with their organisation. In most cases the Auxiliary Members have little or no touch.